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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"components of fitness"”.
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Evaluating Rate of Perceived Exertion and Heart Rate in High School Weight Training Students for Assessing, Enhancing, and Maintaining Health-Related Fitness
… study evaluated the relationship between rating of perceived exertion (RPE) and heart rate (HR) among high school weight-training students during circuit training sessions. The purpose of this study was to determine whether RPE could serve as a practical method for gauging moderate to vigorous …
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Children's Perceptions of the FITNESSGRAM Fitness Test
FITNESSGRAM is a battery of fitness tests that assess if a child's fitness level is, according to a health standard, enough to be considered healthy. These tests include the five components of health-related fitness: aerobic endurance, muscular strength and muscular endurance, flexibility, and body …
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ActiveLifestyle: a persuasive platform to monitor and motivate physical training plan compliance in elderly people
… public health goal is to increase the number of years of good health and, therefore, maintain independence and quality of life as long as possible. Healthy ageing is characterized by the avoidance of disease and disability, the maintenance of high physical and cognitive function, and sustained …
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Fishing For The Evolutionary Bases Of Female Ornamentation
Sexual dimorphism, or phenotypic differentiation of the sexes, is widespread amongst animals. It is understood mainly in the context of sexual selection, i.e. selection on mating success, with such selection typically acting more strongly on males. In some cases however, conspicuous ornaments …
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Microevolutionary processes in natural populations of the waterstrider Aquarius remigis
Traits are often assumed to be optimal, but evolution may be constrained by genetics, the adaptive landscape, development, and functional limitations. Optimal body size is determined by the net effect of selection acting throughout the life history of the organism. Body size is correlated between …
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F.I.RE. fighters: Fitness intervention in recruit firefighters
… as well as improve their health and physical fitness as well as job performance. Given the increased risk of many diseases and diminished health, firefighters’ fitness levels are crucial for preventing these potentially morbid diseases or at least decreasing their risk. The purpose of this …
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Quantitative characterisation of single-cell circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria Synechococcus elongatus
… in bulk studies. To do this, we developed a microfluidic setup, allowing us to carefully control cellular environments and quantify circadian gene expression and clock-modulated cell growth and division. Using quantitative time-lapse microscopy, we measured the robustness of cyanobacterial …
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Fitness, body composition, and depressive symptoms in healthy and depressed adults and older adults
… leading disease burden by 2030. Indeed, 13% of the Spanish population aged 15 and over presented depressive symptoms, with a higher impact on women. The frequency of symptoms rises more steeply with aging affecting approximately 24% of older adults. Suffering from depressive symptoms or …
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Introgression of genes from rape to wild turnip
Introgression of genes from crops into ruderal populations is a multi-step process requiring sympatry, synchronous flowering, chromosomal compatibility, successful pollination and development of the zygote, germination, establishment and reproduction of hybrid progeny. The goal of this thesis was …
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The impact of exercise in children and adolescents with movement impairment
The relationship between level of movement skill and fitness in children and adolescents plays an important role in improving physical activity (PA) and health. Children with poor motor proficiency and coordination categorised as having movement impairment (MI) often choose a more sedentary …
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The adaptive potential of plant endopolyploidy in response to herbivory
… is a potentially strong selective agent of plant phenotypes, including selecting for many defensive traits, though not all plant-herbivore interactions are strictly negative for the plants. Overcompensation is the increase in components of fitness (flower, fruit, and/or seed yield) …